candela
English
Alternative forms
- (abbreviation) cd
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”). Doublet of candle and chandelle.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kænˈdɛlə/, /kænˈdiːlə/, /ˈkændɪlə/
- (US) IPA(key): /kænˈdiːlə/, /kænˈdɛlə/
- Rhymes: -ɛlə, -iːlə, -ændɪlə
- Hyphenation: can‧de‧la
Noun
candela (plural candelas or (rare) candelae)
- In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd
Related terms
- candelabrum
- candid
- candidate
- candle
- candlepower
- candlestick
- chandler
- chandlery
Translations
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Further reading
- candela on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- canaled, decanal
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin candela, with Ecclesiastical Latin influence. Doublet of the older inherited form canela[1].
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /kənˈdɛ.lə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kanˈdɛ.la/
Noun
candela f (plural candeles)
- candle
Synonyms
- canela (archaic or dialectal)
Derived terms
- candeler
- candelera
- candeleta
Related terms
- candelilla
- canelobre
References
- “candela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading
- “candela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “candela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “candela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish candela, from Latin candela.
Noun
candela
- candle
Related terms
- candelabra
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin candela (“candle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɑnˈdeː.laː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: can‧de‧la
Noun
candela f (plural candela's)
- candela
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin candēla. Doublet of chandelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑ̃.de.la/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
candela f (plural candelas)
- candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin candēla, derived from candeō (“to shine, glow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanˈde.la/
- Rhymes: -ela
- Hyphenation: can‧dé‧la
Noun
candela f (plural candele)
- candle
- Ellipsis of candela di accensione (“spark plug”).
- candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)
- (slang) snot
- chandelle (aerobatic maneuver)
Derived terms
- candelaggio
- candelaio
- candeliere
Related terms
- candelabro
Further reading
- candela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- Calenda, caldane
Latin
Etymology
From candeō (“shine, glitter; glow”) + -ēla.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kanˈdeː.la/, [kän̪ˈd̪eːɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kanˈde.la/, [kän̪ˈd̪ɛːlä]
Noun
candēla f (genitive candēlae); first declension
- A light made of wax or tallow; tallow candle or taper.
- A fire.
- A cord covered with wax.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | candēla | candēlae |
Genitive | candēlae | candēlārum |
Dative | candēlae | candēlīs |
Accusative | candēlam | candēlās |
Ablative | candēlā | candēlīs |
Vocative | candēla | candēlae |
Derived terms
- candēlābrum
Related terms
- candefaciō
- candēlābrārius
- candēns
- candentia
- candeō
- candescō
- candicō
- candidus
- candificō
- candor
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: candela, candelu
- Italian: candela
- Sicilian: cannila
- Padanian:
- Friulian: cjandele, čhandele
- Lombard: candéla
- Piedmontese: candèila, candèira, candèlia, candaia
- Romansch: chandaila
- Venetian: candéła
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: chandoile, chandele, chandeile
- Middle French: chandelle, chandaille, chandeille, chandoille
- French: chandelle
- Haitian Creole: chandèl
- → Norman: chandelle
- French: chandelle
- Gallo: chandelle
- Norman: candelle
- Picard: candelle
- Walloon: tchandèle
- Middle French: chandelle, chandaille, chandeille, chandoille
- Old French: chandoile, chandele, chandeile
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: candela
- Catalan: canela
- Occitan: candèla; chandela
- Ibero-Romance:
- Extremaduran: candela
- Old Leonese: *candela
- Asturian: candela
- Leonese: candela
- Mirandese: candela
- Old Portuguese: candea
- Galician: candea
- Portuguese: candeia (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: candela
- Ladino: kandela
- Spanish: candela (see there for further descendants)
- → Albanian: *këndell(i)
- Albanian: këndell
- → Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē)
- Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē), κανδήλα (kandḗla), κανδῆλα (kandêla), κανδέλα (kandéla), καντῆλα (kantêla), καντήλα (kantḗla)
- Greek: καντήλα (kantíla)
- → Aromanian: cãndilã
- → Romanian: candelă
- Greek: καντήλα (kantíla)
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܢܕܝܠܐ, ܩܢܕܠܐ (qandēlāʾ)
- → Arabic: قِنْدِيل (qindīl), قَنْدِيل (qandīl) (see there for further descendants)
- → Georgian: კანდელი (ḳandeli)
- → Laz: კანდელი (ǩandeli)
- → Old Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղն (kantʿełn)
- Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղ (kantʿeł); կանթէղ (kantʿēł); գանթեղ (gantʿeł); գանթէղ (gantʿēł); գանթէ՛ղ (gantʿḗł); կա՛նթիղ (kántʿił); կանտեղ (kanteł)
- → Udi: կանթեղ (kantʿeł, “church lamp”)
- Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղ (kantʿeł); կանթէղ (kantʿēł); գանթեղ (gantʿeł); գանթէղ (gantʿēł); գանթէ՛ղ (gantʿḗł); կա՛նթիղ (kántʿił); կանտեղ (kanteł)
- → Old East Slavic: кандило (kandilo)
- Russian: канди́ло (kandílo), канде́ль (kandélʹ),
- → Old Church Slavonic: канъдило (kanŭdilo)
- → Macedonian: кандило (kandilo)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кандило
- Latin: kandilo
- Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē), κανδήλα (kandḗla), κανδῆλα (kandêla), κανδέλα (kandéla), καντῆλα (kantêla), καντήλα (kantḗla)
- → Basque: kandela
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kantuɨll (via Vulgar Latin *cantēlla)
- Breton: kantol
- Cornish: kantol
- Old Welsh: cannuill
- Middle Welsh: canhwyll
- Welsh: cannwyll
- Middle Welsh: canhwyll
- → Catalan: candela
- → Proto-Norse: *ᚲᚢᚾᛞᛁᛚᚨ (*kundila)
- Old Norse: kyndill
- Faroese: kyndil
- Icelandic: kyndill
- Old Swedish: kyndil
- Old Danish: kyndæl
- → Proto-Finnic:
- Estonian: küünal
- Finnish: kynttilä (or via Old Swedish)
- Ingrian: küntteli
- Votic: tšüntteli
- Old Norse: kyndill
- → Old English: candel (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: caindel (see there for further descendants)
References
- “candela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “candela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- candela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- candela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “candela”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “candela”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կանթեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 514
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.de.lɑ/
Noun
candela
- nominative/accusative/genitive plural of candel
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin candela (cf. English candela). Doublet of the inherited candeia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɐ̃ˈdɛ.lɐ/
- Hyphenation: can‧de‧la
Noun
candela f (plural candelas)
- (physics) candela (unit of measurement of luminous intensity)
Related terms
- candeia
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin candēla. Doublet of candil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanˈdela/ [kãn̪ˈd̪e.la]
- Rhymes: -ela
- Syllabification: can‧de‧la
Noun
candela f (plural candelas)
- candle
- Synonym: vela
- (physics) candela (physical unit)
- combustible
- Synonym: lumbre
- (especially Cuba, Venezuela) fire, light
- Synonyms: fuego, incendio
- 1997, Luis Marquetti; Sergio González Siaba (lyrics and music), “El Cuarto de Tula”, performed by Buena Vista Social Club:
- El cuarto de Tula, le cogió candela / Se quedó dormida y no apagó la vela
- Tula's room caught fire / She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle
Related terms
- candelabro
- candelero
- echar candela
- matacandelas
- ser candela
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kandila
- → Limos Kalinga: kandela
- → Masbatenyo: kandila
- → Papiamentu: kandela
- → Tagalog: kandila
Further reading
- “candela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
candela c
- candela
References
- candela in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- candela in Svensk ordbok (SO)